June 25, 2010
HP Unveils Affordable Educational Netbook
The VAR Guy
Dave Courbanou writes about a new netbook from HP which targets the education sector.
“HP Mini 100e ‘Education Edition’ has been designed for durability and the unique needs of classroom computing. Plus, HP has outfitted it with hardware and software tools to make it interactive. The HP Mini 100e is ruggedized with a spill-resistant keyboard, and an LED notification for when a PC is connected to a network, letting instructors know at a glance if student’s machines are working. And of course, there’s all the features you’d expect, like WiFi, but some you wouldn’t – like dial-up.”
Samsung plans to double its smartphone share by end of year, jump ahead of HTC and Motorola
Engadget
Thomas Ricker shares Samsung’s smartphone growth objectives for the year.
“More than 10 per cent of worldwide smartphone market share: that’s where Samsung plans to be, on triple its current handset volume, by the end of 2010 according to Lee Donjoo, senior vice-president of the company’s Mobile Communications division. Mind you, such a jump would be staggering in terms of growth with Samsung owning less than five per cent of global smartphone market share currently. A move to 10 per cent would place them at number four globally according to IDC’s numbers, behind Nokia, RIM, and Apple.”
AMD unveils new Opterons, Firestream add-in boards
Ars Technica
Jon Stokes shares some details about AMD’s new processor series, aimed at cloud computing.
“It’s not enough to make a power-efficient server or processor anymore; no, you also have to package it as being for ‘the Cloud.’ As a four- and six-core server part for one- and two-socket systems, Lisbon is definitely more traditional than the more exotic cloud-specific products that have been mooted recently. The latter have been aimed at Intel’s Xeon as the epitome of the traditional, performance-oriented, chronically underutilized server processor, while AMD hopes to slot Lisbon in right beneath Xeon in the price/performance ladder.”